Being rejected in love by a beautiful, but cruel women an leave a man in a astate of utter lifeless misery
How can I forget thee----John Clare
"That farewell voice of love is never heard again,
yet I remember it and think o it with pain:"
Stuck with a memory which only causes pain
In a vicious circle, transfixed by his one-sided love
"Twas here she said farewell and no one yet
Has so sweet spoken - How can I forget"
Haunted by his love, no-one can replace her or make him forget
La Belle Dame Sans Merci----John Keats
"O what can ail thee, knight at arms, "
repeated on 1st line in verse 1 & 2
" O what can ail thee, knight at arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?"
His appearance, negative illustrating & exacerbating his pain
"I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
Who cried- 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in a thrall"
shows how not only one who has suffered at the hands of love
bewitched by a womans beauty by the lake
"I saw their startved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,"
Warnings of not to fall in love due tp the pain, but it is always too late,
love and pain are inevitable?
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